Showing posts with label Fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fiction. Show all posts

Gone with the Wind / Margaret Mitchell

Title: Gone with the Wind
Author: Margaret Mitchell 
Subjects: Classic; Fiction; Historical Fiction

Gone with the Wind was popular with American readers. Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize in 1937. It was adapted into a film in 1939. Gone with the Wind takes place in the southern United States in the state of Georgia during the American Civil War. It unfolds against the backdrop of rebellion wherein seven southern states initially, have declared their separation from the United States.

Tarzan of the Apes / Edgar Rice Burroughs

Title: Tarzan of the Apes 
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Subjects: Fiction; Fantasy 

It is the first in a series of books about Tarzan. The story follows Tarzan's adventures, from his childhood being raised by apes in the jungle, his encounters with other humans and Western society. The book is followed by two dozen sequels. There are several important themes in the novel: the impact of heredity on behavior; racial superiority; civilization; sexuality; and escapism.

The Gods of Mars / Edgar Rice Burroughs

Title: The Gods of Mars 
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs 
Subjects: Classic; Fiction; Science Fiction; Fantasy

First book 'A Princess of Mars', John Carter is unwillingly transported back to Earth. Second book 'The Gods of Mars' begins with his arrival back on Barsoom (Mars) after a ten-year separation from his wife Dejah Thoris, his unborn child, and the Red Martian people of the nation of Helium. Unfortunately, Carter materializes in the one place on Barsoom...

Lady Susan / Jane Austen

Title: Lady Susan 
Author: Jane Austen
Subjects: Classic; Fiction

A very short epistolary novel by Austen. It is a story of Lady Susan, a beautiful and charming widow. Most of the focus is on character and moral issues. Susan is a selfish, unscrupulous and scheming woman, highly attractive to men, who is perfectly unashamed of her relationship with a married man. 

Northanger Abbey / Jane Austen


Title: Northanger Abbey 
Author: Jane Austen
Subjects: Classic; Fiction; Satire

Northanger Abbey is a satire of Gothic novels. It is a story of young girl Catherine Morland, who entertains the reader on her journey to a better understanding of the world and those around her. She discovers that she differs from those other women who crave wealth or social acceptance. She wishes only to have happiness supported by genuine morality.

Mansfield Park / Jane Austen


Title: Mansfield Park 
Author: Jane Austen
Subjects: Classic; Fiction

It is a story of Fanny Price. Her family sends her at age ten to live in the household of her wealthy aunt. It follows her early adulthood. Regency critics praised the novel's wholesome morality. The Victorian consensus treated Austen's novels as social comedy. To Susan Morgan (1987), Mansfield Park was the most difficult of Austen's novels, featuring the weakest of all her heroines yet one who ends up the most beloved member of her family.

Persuasion / Jane Austen

Title: Persuasion 
Author: Jane Austen
Subjects: Classic; Fiction

Persuasion is the last novel of Austen. It is a story of Anne Elliot, whose family is moving to lower their expenses and get out of debt. It is full of many humorous encounters and romance. The novel was well-received in the early 19th century, but greater fame came later in the 20th century. Anne Elliot is noteworthy among Austen's heroines for her relative maturity.

Emma / Jane Austen

Title: Emma 
Author: Jane Austen
Subjects: Classic; Fiction; Humor

Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian–Regency England; she creates a lively comedy of manners and depicts issues of marriage, gender, age, and social status. This novel has been adapted for several films, television programmes, and many stage plays. It is inspiration for several novels.

Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens

Title: Oliver Twist (The Parish Boy's Progress)  
Author: Charles Dickens 
Illustrator: George Cruikshank 
Subjects: Classic; Fiction

The story focus on an orphan Oliver Twist. Once he sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. He managed to escape to London. Oliver Twist is notable for its unromantic portrayal by Dickens of criminals and their sordid lives. Dickens satire the hypocrisies of his time, including child labour, the recruitment of children as criminals, and the presence of street children.

A Christmas Carol / Charles Dickens

Title: A Christmas Carol (A Ghost Story of Christmas) 
Author: Charles Dickens
Illustrator: John Leech
Subjects: Classic; fiction; Children

A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man. Dickens was influenced by the experiences of his own youth and by the Christmas stories of other authors.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz / L. Frank Baum

Title: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Author: L. Frank Baum
Subjects: Classic; Fantasy; Children; Fiction

It is very famous children book. It is story of adventures of a young farm girl named Dorothy. The Library of Congress ( U.S.A.) has declared it "America's greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale." Must read for every children and every person who love childhood. 

The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde / Robert Louis Stevenson

Title: The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde 
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Subjects: Classic; Fiction; Science Fiction; Horror; Psychological 

It is about dual personality an unpredictably dual nature: usually very good, but sometimes shockingly evil. The novella is frequently interpreted as an examination of the duality of human nature, usually expressed as an inner struggle between good and evil. Can be read for psychological theme.

War and Peace / Leo Tolstoy

Title: War and Peace 
Author: Leo Tolstoy 
Translators: Louise and Aylmer Maude
Subjects: Classic; Fiction; Historical Fiction

According to Tolstoy War and Peace is not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less a historical chronicle. Large sections, are a philosophical discussion. It is history of the French invasion of Russia and the impact on Tsarist society through five Russian aristocratic families.

The Idiot / Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Title: The Idiot 
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
Translator: Eva Martin
Subjects: Fiction; Classic; Psychological

The Idiot is a quintessentially Russian novel, one that penetrates the complex psyche of the people. In it, Prince Myshkin, is thrust into society more concerned with wealth, power and sexual conquest rather than ideals. He soon finds himself at the center of a violent love triangle.

Sense and Sensibility / Jane Austen

Title: Sense and Sensibility 
Author: Jane Austen
Subjects: Classic; Fiction

It tells the story of the Dashwood sisters. They experience love, romance, and heartbreak in the story. The novel may be read as a parody of the full-blown romanticism and sensibility that was fashionable around the 1790s. Actually the title describes how to find a balance between sense and sensibility in life and love. It is also famous for Austen's wit. 

The Trial / Franz Kafka


Title: The Trial
Author: Franz Kafka
Translator: David Wyllie
Subjects: Classic; Fiction; Social

It is the story of Josef K., a man with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. It is influenced by Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. Kafka calls Dostoyevsky as his blood relative. There is no end of the book as writers other books. 

A Princess of Mars / Edgar Rice Burroughs

Title: A Princess of Mars 
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Subjects: Classic; Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction

It is a science fantasy with a seminal instance of the planetary romance. The story is set on Mars, imagined as a dying planet with a harsh desert environment. It was inspirational for many scientists in the fields of space exploration and the search for extraterrestrial life, including Carl Sagan.

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe

Title: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe 
Author: Daniel Defoe
Subjects: Adventure; Classic; Fiction

The book is presented as an autobiography of the title character. He spends 28 years on a remote tropical island, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers. The Story is based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, who lived for four years on a Pacific island which was renamed Robinson Crusoe Island.

The Invisible Man / H. G. Wells

Title: The Invisible Man 
Author: H. G. Wells
Subjects: Classic; Fiction; Science Fiction

It is a story of scientist who has devoted and invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light and thus becomes invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself and turn an invisible man, but fail to reverse it. It become an iconic character in horror fiction.

Wuthering Heights / Emily Bronte

Title: Wuthering Heights 
Author: Emily Bronte 
Subjects: Classic; Fiction


It was controversial because of its unusually stark depiction of mental and physical cruelty, and it challenged strict Victorian ideals regarding religious hypocrisy, morality, social classes and gender inequality. One significant aspect is the moorland setting. Wuthering Heights is now a classic of English literature.

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